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NASA to Investigate Climate Impacts of Arctic Sea Ice Loss

Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)

A new NASA field campaign will begin flights over the Arctic this summer to study the effect of sea ice retreat on Arctic climate. The Arctic Radiation IceBridg...

Watching the Winds Where Sea Meets Sky

Aug 15, 2014 (JPL)

The ocean covers 71 percent of Earth's surface and affects weather over the entire globe. Hurricanes and storms that begin far out over the ocean affect people ...

TechDemoSat-1 video from orbit captures spectacular view of Earth and a flypast of the launcher

Aug 13, 2014 (SPX)

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released a video from a camera mounted on an exterior panel of TechDemoSat-1, which shows the satellite moments after...

Study of Aerosols Stands to Improve Climate Models

Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)

Of all the factors that influence Earth's changing climate, the effect that tiny particles in Earth's atmosphere called aerosols have on clouds is the least wel...

New NASA Studies to Examine Climate/Vegetation Links

Aug 01, 2014 (JPL)

NASA has selected proposals for two new instruments, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, that will observe changes in glo...

NASA's IceCube No Longer On Ice

Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) has chosen a team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to build its first Earth science-relate...

What's the hold up, El Nino?

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

In the July 10 update and ENSO discussion, we said the atmospheric part of ENSO doesn't seem to be responding to the ocean. El Nino requires that both be in syn...

Lead Pollution Beat Explorers to South Pole, Persists Today

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole in December 1911. More than 100 years later, an international team of scientists ...

NASA's HS3 Mission Spotlight: The HIRAD Instrument

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer, known as HIRAD, will fly aboard one of two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft during NASA's Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 ...

Quiet Year Expected for Amazon Forest Fires in 2014

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, using a variety of satellite data, expect Amazon forests this year to see a below-average wildfire...

OCO-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward into the Past

Jul 23, 2014 (JPL)

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concen...

Ten-Year Endeavor: NASA's Aura Tracks Pollutants

Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)

When astronaut William Anders flew on the first manned mission to orbit the moon in 1968, he photographed the surreal view of Earth rising above the lunar horiz...

NASA's Van Allen Probes Show How to Accelerate Electrons

Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)

One of the great, unanswered questions for space weather scientists is just what creates two gigantic donuts of radiation surrounding Earth, called the Van Alle...

ADS and Esri Take Satellite Imagery Services to a Premium Level

Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)

Airbus Defense and Space and Esri have developed three new Premium Content Services to provide ArcGIS Online users with an option to access Pleiades and SPOT th...

Hyperspec Sensors Target Vegetation Fluorescence

Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)

Headwall is announcing the availability of a new hyperspectral imager targeting very high resolution spectral measurements of 0.1 nm over specific spectral rang...

GPM Satellite Sees First Atlantic Hurricane

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory flew over Hurricane Arthur five times between July 1 and July 5, 2014. Arthur is the first tropical ...

NASA's Aquarius Returns Global Maps of Soil Moisture

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists working with data from NASA's Aquarius instrument have released worldwide maps of soil moisture, showing how the wetness of the land fluctuates with ...

First images from SPOT 7 satellite within three days after launch

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

Airbus Defence and Space has published the first images obtained from the SPOT 7 satellite, a mere three days after its launch on 30 June. Over the last few hou...

Three NASA satellites dissect powerful Typhoon Neoguri

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's Aqua, TRMM and CloudSat dissected powerful Typhoon Neoguri as it moved through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and affected southern Japan. The three sate...

NASA's RapidScat to Unveil Hidden Cycles of Sea Winds

Jul 11, 2014 (JPL)

Ocean waves, the hot sun, sea breezes -- the right combination makes a great day at the beach. A different combination makes a killer hurricane. The complex int...